Senator Rand Paul Faces New Charges of Plagiarism

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Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who in recent weeks has had to explain how Wikipedia entries came to be incorporated into his speeches with no attribution, faced charges of direct plagiarism on Monday night.

In an op-ed article he wrote for The Washington Times in September on mandatory minimum prison sentences, Mr. Paul, a Republican, appears to have copied language from an essay that had previously run in The Week magazine.

That article, written by Dan Stewart, an editor for The Week, included this sentence: “America now jails a higher percentage of its citizens than any other country, including China and Iran, at the staggering cost of $80 billion a year.” It was posted to the web on Sept. 14.

On Sept. 20, Mr. Paul wrote this: “America now jails a higher percentage of its citizens than any other country, including China and Iran, at the staggering cost of $80 billion a year.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/us/politics/senator-rand-paul-faces-new-charges-of-plagiarism.html?hp&_r=0&pagewanted=print

[gopiscrap]

1. what an asswipe

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2. his response: “I think I’m being unfairly targeted by a bunch of hacks and haters,” he said.

[Sheepshank]

3. Absolutely there are Rand Paul hacks and haters...but he's NOT being unfairly targeted

he painted his own bullseye on his own rear end.

[lostincalifornia]

4. I am waiting for someone to take him up on his duel challenge

[NastyRiffraff]

5. Finally something Rand is good at

The boy named after Ayn Rand is an expert at cut and paste.

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6. i am too, but at least i give credit!!!!!

[Gore1FL]

7. Technically speaking...

When he called people "Hacks and Haters" on Sunday, it wasn't original. George Michael used the term in 2011.


http://www.digitalspy.com/celebrity/news/a310187/george-michael-slams-hacks-and-haters.html

[sheshe2]

8. In my dreams, I know.

The plagiarizing politician Paul, who knew?

[gordianot]

9. What bothers me Rand Paul will be discredited over his plagiarism and not lame brained ideas.

Always complaining in the back ground about media turns out Rand has been stealing from them. When they are through with him Rand Paul will be the plagiarism poster child. Ignored are his various tantrums directed toward critics bordering on threats and occasional actual violence soundly based in koo koo land. In reality Rand Paul stands somewhere a couple steps from Alex Jones and the Ku Klux Klan. Rand Paul's big problem he does not have an organization (yet) that can enforce his tantrums.

[denverbill]

10. Yes but in Libertopia, plagiarism doesn't exist.

After all, Libertarianism dictates that maximum individual freedom is the goal no matter who it hurts or how much. Maintaining intellectual property rights for things like writings and movies requires a dictatorial central bureaucracy to cram it's police-state hands down our throats.

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11. Why does anyone think that he actually writes his op-eds?

We know that ALEC writes legislation all over the country with little variation. They and their aligned think tanks are probably pushing same propaganda through many puppets all over the country.

I think newspapers should have op-ed submitters sign a statement indicating that the work is their own and that they are not paid any money to present this point of view.

Conan does a segment that runs clips of "news" anchors all over the country and on different networks that read the EXACT same lines.

We don't have independent media - that includes op-eds